Today is International Women’s Day(IWD). On this day, on March 8 every year, we celebrate women’s achievement in society and mark our solidarity for equal rights between women and men all over the world.

This day, also called International Working Women’s Day, or sometimes Women’s Liberation Day, or just Women’s Day, is celebrated in many ways.

Here in Norway there’s a tradition for a Women’s march, where women and men march for various women’s right issues. In addition there are also social and cultural events to celebrate the day, but the focus that day is always on the women’s right issues.

We congratulate all women on International Women’s Day with Pavarotti singing Donna non vidi mai (“You haven’t seen a woman like that”) from the Puccini opera Manon Lescaut, live from Munich in 1986.